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Unit 4

The Lady, or the Tiger? (1)

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1. About the Title

The Lady, or the Tiger? Trick or Treat? (children’s words at Halloween) To Be, or Not to Be? (Hamlet’s soliloquy ) What does this pattern call to your mind?

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2. About the Story

This is a story about how justice is administered by a semi-barbaric king. Let’s first talk about how justice is done in a civilized society. Now let’s imagine how things like this go on in a barbaric kingdom and how things go on in a semi-barbaric kingdom.

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3. Synopsis of the story

"The Lady, or the Tiger?" is about a man sentenced to an unusual punishment for having a romance with a king's beloved daughter. Taken to the public arena, he is faced with two doors, behind one of which is a hungry tiger that will devour him. Behind the other is a beautiful lady-in-waiting, whom he will have to marry, if he finds her.

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While the crowd waits anxiously for his decision, he sees the princess among the spectators, who points him to the door on the right. The lover starts to open the door and ... the story ends abruptly there.

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Did the princess save her love by pointing to the door leading to the lady-in-waiting, or did she prefer to see her lover die rather than see him marry someone else? That discussion hook has made the story a staple in English classes in American schools, especially since Stockton was careful never to hint at what he thought the ending would be.

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4. About the author

Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902) One of the most famous American writers of the 1880s and 1890s; An American humorist who has been compared to Mark Twain; This story was his most famous story, first published in the popular magazine Century in 1882.

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Best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century, using clever humor to poke at greed, violence, abuse of power and other human foibles, describing his fantastic characters' adventures in a charming, matter-of-fact way in stories like "The Griffin and the Minor Canon" (1885) and "The Bee-Man of Orn" (1887), which was published in 1964 in an edition illustrated by Maurice Sendak.

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5. Organization of the text

Part Ⅰ(1): description of the King’s semi-barbaric character; Part Ⅱ(2-6): illustration of how the King administered justice in the arena; Part Ⅲ (7-8): reasons why justice was done in this way. The Theme or themes?

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6. Questions for Part Ⅰ

In what sense was the king “semi-barbaric”? (his ideas were polished and sharpened by…, but still large, florid and untrammeled) What was his character like? (a man of exuberant fancy and of an irresistible authority; having a tendency to discuss matters with himself; having a liking to make the crooked straight and crush down uneven places; Owing no more allegiance to any tradition than pleased his fancy; Having a liking to ingraft his barbaric idealism

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